Blast near Kabul airport, returning Vice President Dostum unharmed

Описание: (22 Jul 2018) Afghanistan's first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, escaped unharmed from an explosion near Kabul airport as he returned home on Sunday after living in Turkey for more than a year, according to security officials.
Najib Danish, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said a suicide bomber carried out an attack near the Kabul airport shortly after the country's controversial first vice president landed on his return from abroad.
General Abdul Rashid Dostum and members of his entourage were unharmed in the attack on Sunday, said Danish, adding that authorities were still determining if there were any casualties.
Dostum left the country under controversial circumstances in 2017, after the attorney-general's office opened an investigation into allegations that his followers had tortured and sexually abused a former ally turned political rival.
Dostum had since reportedly been prevented by the government from returning to Afghanistan.
Dostum, accused of war crimes committed after the collapse of the Taliban in 2001, has been criticized by the United States for human rights abuses.

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